International Masterclasses 2015
Central Coordination
IPPOG meeting – 17.04.2015 - Paris
Summary• A very good year• Central coordination all in Dresden
Sept 2014 to Feb 2015– Bilow and Cecire in same office at
IKTP
• Measurements stable– Some improvements in usabilty made– Question time via Vidyo beforehand (1
h each measurement)
• Increase in participation
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es• Circulars ~ 1 per month until Jan, then ~ 1 per week• archive of circulars on „Local Organisation“ webpage, +
more important material, e.g. manual for video conference, step-by-step orga list, templates …
www.physicsmasterclasses.org/index.php?cat=local_organisation&page=organisation
Registration• LHCb fully integrated, as promised
• Registration via doodle, started on Oct. 16, date and procedure announced well before
• Predefined slots, each limited to 5 participants all VC with 2-5 participants (a few had only one)
• ALICE and LHCb: discussed and agreed on common dates beforehand
Procedure worked well
Exception: New institutes registering without giving contact details
Creating the Schedule• CERN: 26.2. – 2.4.2015 (32 days) (2014: 26)
• 213 (199) Masterclasses (Fermilab: 45)
• ALICE: 18 (14)
– ATLAS W: 37 (51)
– ATLAS Z: 84 (67) (15)
– CMS: 46 (46) (30)
– LHCb: 28 (21)
• 51 (48) VCs with CERN; 18 with FNAL (12)
• 154 (144) institutes/sites registered
+ Vancouver + vicinity 3 ATLAS MCs this Saturday
+ Australia in July
BUT: Several sessions (~12) cancelled on short notice
Video conference / CERN + FNAL• Moderators: 47+18 (42+12), 40 % new• Multiple recruiting channels • WG VC (Kate Katharine Leney, Michael,
Marzena, Uta)– Manuals for VC for local organisers– Manual and twiki for moderators – Training for mod. at CERN 17.2.
• Preparation of conference rooms• Reward for moderators: T-shirt from
the CERN shop (Rolf/Maureen)
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Evaluation with CERN moderators• Started 3 days ago, 17 answers so far
• Introduction rated 2.5 (on a 5 point scale)
• Twiki and manual good resources, some issues can be improved
• Many technical issues on institutes´ side (bad audio, connecting too late, not muted)
• Some institutes not well prepared (no speakers selected, no questions collected)
• Improved setup in rooms at CERN requested, camera angle, screens, …
• Moderators generally enjoyed the sessions
• Very detailled feedback on measurements, will be made available
Funding and Support• Coordinator (50 % FTE)
2013-2015 funded by CERN (3 years)
• QuarkNet staff (time from salaried positions)
• Co-coordinator at Dresden - TUD senior fellowship
09/2014 – 02/2015
• Student assistants: TU Dresden
• Funding from EPS HEPP Division
• in kind contributions (CERN, FNAL, Vidyo team,
moderators, …)
Participation Statistics
193 Institutes (154 + 42)
255 Masterclasses (213 + 45)
10.500 High-school students (estimated) incl. 1040 in Fermilab-VC
42 Countries – New: Morocco
International Masterclass Day* in October or November
Virtual Masterclasses
IMC in 2015
CMS Masterclass 2015
23 countries, 78 institutes
Introduced CIMA - CMS Instrument for Masterclass Analysis:
• Developed July-Feb 2015 by Stefan Schoppmann and Michael Soiron (Uni Aachen), support from QuarkNet and Notre Dame
• Bugs first week of masterclasses – fixed • Rated highly, great results• CMS Masterclass very stable with continuous improvement
Center Masterclasses Countries Videoconferences Languages
CERN 49 17 10
FNAL 29 10 11
Combined 78 23 21 12
ALICE : Looking for strange particles - 2015 Masterclasses
14 International Physics Masterclasses(+1 at CERN, school from New Zealand on CERN visit, 7.4.2015)Total ~ 500 participantsNewcomers : Maynooth (Ireland), Trieste
Feedback positive and enthusiastic•Comments on collection of results
– from visual analysis : too slow - maybe skip in the future?– google spreadsheets : safe? Extended sheets with statistics to be used in the future
•Some comments on videconference (sound quality..); too long?
Measurement stable - No plans for changeVirtual machine used in some casesCERN: used S’COOL lab
ALICE: Nuclear Modification Factor one session on March 13
~80 participants at 4 institutesDarmstadt, GermanyFrankfurt, GermanyMünster, Germany (new this year)Prague, Czech Republic
same measurement as in previous years: http://www-alice.gsi.de/masterclass/
all groups ‘discovered’ the quark-gluon plasma
positive feedback from all groups and moderators of the video conference
Totem Masterclass Development• Uta demonstrated with coaching from Giuseppe Latino• Improvements:
• More data• Data merge• Plot histogram in |t| and • Now runs on Windows and Linux
• Needs further development:• More stable Windows version• Mac version
• Next SG Vidyo:• How to best use• How to move forward